ANALYSIS
Charting East Germany's Political Twister
Henry Krish
Hungary's Pitfalls of Progress
Ivan Volgyes
Checking on the International Banking Revolution
Eugene Sarver
Cote d'lvoire: Model of Stability
Desmond Mc Foran

COMMENTARY
Conventional Defense and European Security
Jed C. Snyder
Federal Information: Who Should Get It, Who Shouldn't?
Diane Sherwood
The U.S. Should Welcome Soviet Jews
Rita J. Simon
Get Tougher With Iran
Mervyn M. Dymally

 

FOOD
Food Labels: Consumer Confusion
Alexandra Greeley

HEALTH
The Cancer Frontier
Robin Parker

HOME
Lighting Your Life
Virginia Greiner

HUMOR
Predicting the Victory
Tom Knott

TRENDS
The Future in Focus
Steven Kaplan
The Soft Sell
Robert James

FEATURED BOOK: Arnost Lustig's Street of Lost Brothers
Introduction
Editor

Stories Outside Stories
Josef Skvorecky

Love at Risk
Lynne Daly

Conversations With Arnost Lustig
Interview

REVIEWS
The Real Nietzsche
Michael D. Aeschliman
THE IMPORTANCE OF NIETZSCHE
Erich Heller

Quantum Leaps
Ralph Benko
MICROCOSM
George Gilder

Historian by Default
William L. O'Neill
20TH CNETURY JOURNEY
William L. Shirer

Manners, Morals, and Misogyny in the Middle Ages
Lucy Mazareski
A MEDIEVAL WOMAN'S MIRROR OF HONOR
Christine de Pizan

DANCE
American Ballet Theatre Hits the Gold
Gary Parks
Leningrad's Best-kept Secret
Don McDonagh

DESIGN
Tiffany: Master Lamp Maker
Alice Thorson

FILM
The San Sebastian Film Festival
Lawrence O'Toole

GALLERY
Stephen Conroy and Michal Kowalski: Two for the '90s
Editor

MUSIC
The Value of New American Music
Samuel Lipman
Crescent Moon Over Cleveland
Philip Kennicott

PERSPECTIVES
Reaching for the Transcendent
Robert R. Reilly

POETRY
Of Trees and Dreams
Martin Reed

THEATER
Coping With Glasnost
John Elsom
An Evening of Irony and Weltschmerz in South Africa
Herb Greer

CRUCIBLES OF SCIENCE
The CIW: A Model of Scientific Freedom
Hatten S. Yoder, Jr.

IMPACTS
Sulfur: Villain or Hero?
Jan S. Platou

NATURE WALK
Out in the Cold
Scott Elias

SCIENCE ESSAY
Why Are Famines Difficult to Predict?
Michael H. Glantz

FOLK WISDOM
Kalinga Myth of Origin
Robert Lawless

HERITAGE
African Contributions to America's Musical Heritage
David Evans

PEOPLES
Pathan Poetry of Afghanistan and Pakistan
Jane Schreibman
Pub Signs of England
Daniel Gabriel